Jeff Sessions (R, AL)

For a party that relies so heavily on the “values voter” (an aside: what are the rest of us?) to win elections, it has always been striking to me that the Republican Party tolerates so much debauchery within its ranks. From “Hot-tub Tom” Delay, to the world-famous party-boy John Boehner, to David Vitter to John Ensign, to John Sweeney, to Mark Sanford… not to mention David Dreier, Rick Perry and Lindsey Graham’s “alternate” lifestyles, it just seems to me that a party of principled standard-setters would want to do a better job of self-policing.